When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David

Susan Ackerman

July, 2005
Cloth, 336 pages, 58 color illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13260-2
$51.00 / £30.00

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies

Related Subjects

• Gay and Lesbian Studies
• Middle Eastern literature
• Religion

Series

• Gender, Theory, and Religion

About the Author

Susan Ackerman is professor of religion and women’s and gender studies at Dartmouth College and chair of the Department of Religion. She is the author of Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen: Women in Judges and Biblical Israel and Under Every Green Tree: Popular Religion in Sixth-Century Judah.

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